I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

I don't think I'm boring.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.